HOUSTON: During NASA’s Artemis mission, astronauts will have cars which are human-rated, unpressurised Lunar Terrain Vehicle (LTV) to help them explore more surface of the Moon and make a variety of scientific discoveries. Engineers at NASA’s Johnson Space Centre in Houston are creating an unpressurised rover prototype, named the Ground Test Unit, in preparation for […]
New research suggests that volcanoes were still active on the moon when dinosaurs roamed Earth. This finding comes from three tiny glass beads collected from the moon’s surface by the Chinese Chang’e 5 mission in 2020. The chemical analysis of these beads shows that lunar volcanoes may have erupted as recently as 120 million years […]
RIYADH: The Saudi Press Agency (SPA) recently captured an amazing sky event: the waning crescent moon lined up with Mars, Jupiter, Aldebaran, and the Pleiades star cluster. This celestial alignment was visible to the naked eye and could be seen from 2:30 am in the Northern Border region until dawn. The alignment of the waning […]
Chandrayaan-3, India’s ambitious third moon mission, had successfully entered the lunar orbit on Saturday, the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) declared through Twitter. The necessary move was carried out from an ISRO facility based in Bengaluru, according to the city’s space agency. “Chandrayaan-3 has been successfully inserted into the lunar orbit. A retro-burning at the […]
In August, the cosmos will treat us to a double feature: two supermoons that will be followed by a rare blue moon. Tuesday saw the appearance of the first supermoon, which was a little bit bigger and brighter than usual. The term “supermoon” was coined because it was found to be closer than usual, at […]
This day in history we feature the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter. A NASA robotic spacecraft is launched on this day in 2009. Trivia – Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) is a NASA robotic spacecraft currently orbiting the Moon in an eccentric polar mapping orbit. Data collected by LRO have been described as essential […]
This day in history we feature the Apollo 13. The seventh crewed mission in the Apollo space program was launched on this day in 1970. Trivia – Apollo 13 The craft was launched from Kennedy Space Center on April 11, 1970, but the lunar landing was aborted after an oxygen tank in the service module […]
This day in history we feature Alexei Leonov. The first person to walk in space, leaving his spacecraft Voskhod 2 for 12 minutes on this day in 1965. Trivia – Alexei Leonov Alexei Arkhipovich Leonov was a Soviet and Russian cosmonaut, Air Force major general, writer, and artist. On 18 March 1965, he became the […]
This day in history we feature Triton. The largest moon of the planet Neptune, is discovered by astronomer William Lassell on this day in 1846. Trivia – Triton Triton is the largest natural satellite of the planet Neptune, it is the only large moon in the Solar System with a retrograde orbit, an orbit in […]
Washington: NASA was all geared up to send its debut Space Launch System (SLS) mission called Artemis I into deep space to perform a long orbit around the Moon before coming back to Earth has decided to postpone the launch. The uncrewed Artemis I mission that originally had a two-hour launch window today from Kennedy […]
Washington: NASA has identified 13 candidate landing regions near the lunar south pole, as it prepares to send humans back to the Moon under the Artemis programme in 2024. Each region contains multiple potential landing sites for Artemis III, which will be the first of the Artemis missions to bring crew to the lunar surface, […]
